On 3/28/2016 9:57 AM, Raja Anbazhagan wrote:
I'm new to tomcat project and I wanted to take a look at the code base to see if I can contribute in any which ways. But after going through the build process and setting up every other tools used to build ant, I'm a bit frustrated. Why didnt we migrated this project to a better build tool like maven or gradle so that the contributor can spend less time setting up the code and more time on actually working on the contribution part.?
In my opinion (and it's probably not shared by many, but I don't care), Maven sucks. Every time I've ever got involved in something that required maven, a repository wasn't present, something had been renamed, new dependencies had been introduced somewhere in the chain that were broken, version numbers were wrong. The issues I'm talking about are not issues directly caused by the tool, but issues caused by fallible humans. However, the complexity of unraveling the problems when they do happen are a huge, giant pain. I hate Maven, and I avoid it like the scurvy plague that it causes...
- Raja
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